A screen shot of Webs.com Earth Day promotion page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- In the week ending April 22, 2011, there were many great promotions, a couple of which were tied into celebrating the upcoming Earth Day. Web host Webs.com is offering a 48-hour sale on all services in addition to free ad credits, Colocation America is making a $100 charitable donation with all new accounts at its Los Angeles data center, 1&1 Internet is offering six months of free shared hosting, and HostGator is offering 25 percent off its hosting services. Webs.com Offers Discounts on Services, Ad Credits To celebrate Earth Day, Webs.com ( www.webs.com ) is offering its “Go Green and Save Green – Happy Earth Day Sale!” Starting Thursday, the 48 hour sale offers discounts on a wide range of Webs.com’s products and services, including annual subscriptions and Webs Premium Packages.

A screenshot shows some of BurstNET’s dedicated server offerings in its LA facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider BurstNET Technologies ( www.burst.net ) announced on Tuesday that it will expand into the US West Coast marketplace with the availability of its dedicated hosting in Los Angeles, California.  “The demand for our services in other locations to be expanded to dedicated hosting, particularly in Los Angeles, has been significant,” Shawn M. Arcus, CEO of BurstNET said in a statement.

At the DomainFest evening event in February at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, over 100 people fell ill, with The Guardian reporting that the possible source is bacteria in the hot tub. Of the 439 people that attended DomainFest, the Los Angeles health inspectors have found 123 people reported pneumonia and flu-like symptoms “including fever, headache, cough, shortness of breath and aches. Sixty-nine people fell sick on the day of the party

02|11|2011 9:10 pm EDT Oversee.net Issues Statement Regarding Mystery Illness by Frank Michlick in Categories: Events – 0 Comments Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Sends out Survey to Conference Attendees Just like Adam and myself a number of other attendees (over 75 according to DNN’s own count) have fallen ill after attending last week’s DOMAINfest in Santa Monica with a variety of diagnosis and treatments. Tonight a spokeperson for DOMAINfest Organizer Domainsponsor and its parent company Oversee.net issued the following statement: DomainSponsor, the organizer of the DOMAINfest Global conference, and its parent company, Oversee.net, have been made aware that several people in attendance at DOMAINfest and various evening events during the week became ill during the conference or after it concluded.

The Telecom Center in Los Angeles, one of its data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation provider Colocation America ( www.colocationamerica.com ) announced on Monday that its power status and core network uptime for 2010 was 100 percent. According to the press release, Colocation America has 22 data centers across the US with connections to major connectivity hubs. “We are very happy that we were about to reach this goal two years in a row,” Michael Trunkett, president of Colocation America said in a statement.

The Telecom Center in Los Angeles, one of its data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation provider Colocation America ( www.colocationamerica.com ) announced on Monday that its power status and core network uptime for 2010 was 100 percent.

Web Hosting News – Los Angeles, CA – Colocation America, a leading colocation provider, has recently completed a large scale upgrade to their Telecom Center data center, one of 5 in Los Angeles, in response to the increase in consumer demand. Their updated space boasts an impressive infrastructure which includes redundant power generators, UPS, superior cooling systems, multiple layers of firewall and physical security and power backups to ensure one of the best uptimes in the industry.